The five hundred cavalry of the Eight Banners mounted their horses, first rode forward slowly, walked about a hundred paces, and then slowly accelerated, and charged along the Yuliang Road towards the city. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because the cross-section of Yuliang Road is very narrow, and there is not much depth at the head of the city, even if the Ming army organizes pikemen to block it, it is difficult to block the Eight Banners cavalry from rushing directly to the city. As long as they go to the city, the Eight Banners cavalry can ride their horses and slash and kill, and after the speed slows down, they are also the best warriors when they dismount at the head of the city. Each of the Eight Banners cavalry was covered with two layers of heavy armor, and even if they dismounted, they had an advantage in close combat.

Another thousand Mongol cavalry archers did not charge from the front, but slowly rode out along the sides of the Yuliang Road, and these Mongol cavalry were light cavalry, although they were not heavily armoured, but they were the best archers.

"The Tartars are still presentable! Not bad! Wang Xinyu looked coldly at the Manmeng Eight Banners cavalry who launched the attack, "Two rifled cannons are ready, I want to surprise the Manchu Eight Banners!" In addition, all rifled guns went into the bastion! Give me the archers who aim at the Mongol Tartars and hit hard! ”

Two hexagonal rifled guns were pushed out, these two guns have been loaded with shells, although they are only solid shells, but two rifled guns with a very straight trajectory of direct fire can form two straight lines of killing, one shell passes, it is a straight line, very straight, I don't know how many people and horses will die on the whole line.

"Ready!" Artillery officer Zhang Shigang raised a small flag in his hand.

Two rifled guns were placed in the bastions behind the walls, which were one foot above the walls, and had firing holes in the bastions to provide the cannons from the firing holes. Obviously, these two forts were built temporarily by the Ming army, that is, facing the Yuliang Road of the Qing army, ready to use the firepower of the fortress to kill and injure the Qing army.

The cavalry of the Eight Banners began to accelerate on the Yuliang Road, and the speed became faster and faster, and there were still two hundred steps away from the city.

"Fire!" Zhang Shigang's small flag waved.

The gunners lit the torches, and the two hexagonal rifled guns made the sound of fire gas expansion, and the high-speed rotating shells flew out of the muzzles, with a puff of white smoke, and pierced the Qing cavalry at high speed who were forming several straight lines on the Yuliang Road.

The first cannonball hit a cavalryman of the Eight Banners in the front, and the high-speed rotating cannonball directly disemboweled the horse, only to see that the cavalry's horse suddenly turned into scattered blood and rain of flesh, only half of the horse's head flew out, and the two legs of the cavalry on horseback were also broken, and the whole person rose into the air, and then fell heavily to the ground.

After the cannonball penetrated the first horse, it continued to penetrate the second horse in a straight line. Because Yuliang Road is an upward slope, the cannonball passed through the neck of the second batch of war horses, the whole horse head burst and shattered, the cannonball that pierced the horse's neck tore the cavalry on horseback into pieces, and then pierced the third, fourth, and fifth war horses, this cannonball penetrated more than a dozen Manchurian cavalry in a company, only to lose kinetic energy, and planted headlong into the soil.

The second shell also pierced more than a dozen cavalrymen of the Eight Banners in a row, and the cavalry who were shot were all broken to bones by men and horses.

Saige only saw the cavalry rushing in front of him and his men and horses turning into scattered blood and flesh, and did not see the cannonball bounce, and then saw a cavalryman next to him shattered his bones, turning into a pile of minced meat and scattering it on the ground.

"What a cannon!" Saige was secretly shocked.

"Boys, hurry up! Minggou barbarians don't load shells so fast! Saige shouted.

There was another round of roaring cannons on the top of the city, this time firing six-pounder cannons, more than a dozen six-pounder cannons fired a salvo, and twelve cannonballs smashed into the crowd full of eight banner soldiers, taking at least 30 lives at once. Immediately afterwards, two more rounds of artillery were fired, and the three-pounder gun fired two rounds of rapid fire.

The casualties of less than a hundred men were completely bearable for the cavalry of the Eight Banners, and they only needed to rush another hundred paces before they could rush up the city wall and cut off the heads of the barbarians at the head of the city with their swords.

At the same time, the Mongol cavalry on both sides of Yuliang Road also moved closer to the city wall, and behind the firearms of the Han Eight Banners, they drew their bows and arrows, preparing to shoot the Ming army at the head of the city with bows and arrows. At this moment, the muzzles of black holes stretched out from the fortress and aimed at the Mongolian cavalry archers a hundred paces away.

The guns roared in the "bang bang bang" fortress, and the rifled guns that fired accurately were almost like guns biting flesh, and the Mongolian horse archers who were shot fell off their horses like dumplings.

Fifty rifled guns, knocked out at least thirty Mongol cavalrymen.

At the head of the city, the armor-piercing arrows shot by the compound pulley bow pierced into the bodies of the Mongolian cavalry one after another, and these Mongolian cavalry with only light armor could not block the heavy arrow shots at all, and more than 100 people were shot off their horses at once.

The forts behind the city walls also roared, and the cannonballs smashed into the herds of the Mongol cavalry with afterimages, and everywhere they went, the horses let out a mournful neigh, and fell one after another, throwing the cavalry on horseback away. Some shells hit the cavalrymen's bodies directly, tearing the human body to pieces in one fell swoop.

On Yuliang Road, the Manchurian Eight Banners cavalry was launching the final charge.

Saige suddenly saw that on the city wall in front of him, some Ming soldiers were busy, pulling up some deer with bent wires and placing them on the head of the city, and then those soldiers scattered and ran away.

"What's that? Tripping? No, how is the tripwire bent? Seg wondered.

Before he could understand what was going on, the cavalry of the Eight Banners at the forefront had already crashed into the wire, which was strange to say, these soft-looking, crooked wires actually had amazing lethality! The horse that collided immediately raised its hind hooves and swept the knight on horseback away, and the horse let out a mournful cry of dying and fell down with a bang. The cavalry behind followed, and the one that hit the wire was killed, and the bloody corpses hung on the wire!

The cavalry behind did not stop their steps, and they all collided with the wire, and after a while, the wire was full of corpses of men and horses.

The cavalry behind finally stopped, and the cavalry on horseback jumped off his horse, drew his sword, and chopped the wire, but he couldn't cut the soft-looking wire! And these wires have sharp iron spikes on them! No wonder the cavalry crashed into it at high speed, that is, it was killed by hanging on the wire along with the men and horses.

This magical thing is barbed wire. It's just that the price of iron in this era is still relatively expensive, Wang Xinyu did not equip a large number of barbed wire, but at the location of Yuliang Road in the city, pulled out a 20-zhang long barbed wire defense line, a total of three barbed wire, with a total length of 60 zhang, these barbed wire, so that more than 100 Qing soldiers died in front of the barbed wire.

Behind the barbed wire, a wooden fence was erected, and from behind the wooden fence stretched out a smoothbore gun, aimed at the Eight Banners who were waving and chopping the barbed wire.

Saige didn't expect that before the heroic and invincible Eight Banners were about to rush to the city, they were stopped by a small barbed wire!

"Get off the horse! Shoot the brute with a bow and arrow! Saige shouted.

There are a lot of wrecks of shield cars, auxiliary soldiers and green battalion soldiers, as well as the corpses of the Eight Banners and horses. The Eight Banners soldiers in the back jumped off their horses, took out their bows, and shot arrows at the Ming musketeers behind the wooden fence.

Rows of arrows were fired, and the archery skills of these Eight Banners soldiers were very accurate, and many Ming musketeers were shot by feather arrows and fell down screaming.

At this moment, white smoke erupted from the fortresses on both wings again, and the rifled gun bullets of accurate shooting drilled into the crowd of Eight Banners, and the high-speed rotating bullets tore through the fragile flesh, and no matter how powerful the archers were, under the blow of the bullets, they all turned into lifeless corpses.

The fortress is a hundred steps away from the Eight Banners, and no matter how powerful the bow and arrow of the Eight Banners are, there is no way to shoot the feather arrows through the shooting hole, and there are very few archers in this world who really have such a hundred-step piercing technique.

Protected by a firing hole, the rifled gunner can calmly kill the enemy without suffering any losses at all.

The Ming army's rockets also played a role, and from time to time there were rockets whistling, burrowing into the crowd of the Eight Banners, and bursting fireballs were raised. The war horses that were squatting on the ground under the control of the Eight Banners were alarmed by the explosions that sounded around them, and they jumped up one after another. Some of the war horses galloped under the Yuliang Road, and some directly crossed their masters and trampled the other Eight Banners soldiers under the hooves.

"Bang" A high-speed spinning bullet pierced Saige's head, the helmet with a high lightning rod flew up, a stream of blood spurted out, and the whole face suddenly became hideous, and half of his head was knocked away.

At the same time, several mortar shells fell in the crowd of the Eight Banners, exploding with dazzling fire.

When the smoke cleared, there were few of the more than 500 cavalry of the Eight Banners who could still stand, and there were human corpses and horse corpses everywhere on Yuliang Road. The few remaining Eight Banners soldiers were completely frightened, they dropped their bows and arrows and weapons, turned around and ran.

On both sides of Yuliang Road, the fate of the Meng Eight Banner soldiers and the Han Eight Banner soldiers was not good there, the artillery fire at the head of the city was extremely fierce, and the defenders had the protection of the city wall, and the Qing army obviously suffered a big loss in the shooting.

"Mingjin retreats!" Seeing that the Eight Banners soldiers who rushed to Yuliang Road suffered a fiasco, Le Erjin had no choice but to give an order. There is no way to storm anymore, if you use the precious Manmeng Eight Banners to attack, I don't know how many people will die, and it is impossible to take the city in front of you.

In the camp of the Qing army, all the generals of the Qing army were depressed, and the atmosphere of pessimism and despair spread in the barracks, and everyone felt that there was no hope of winning the Qiongzhou army.

"I didn't expect that the thief's firearms were so powerful that they were outrageous!" Le Erjin said angrily.

Kong Sizhen, who was born in a family of firearms soldiers in Wuzhen Chaoha, of course understands that firearms will develop again, and firearms will become more and more powerful in the future, and archery and horse riding and archery have already developed to the limit. But she couldn't have said these words to Le Erjin. In fact, the Qing Dynasty should develop firearms and develop a new army! Isn't Huguang's Zhou Peigong doing a good job in this regard?

The Qing army suffered such a heavy setback, and Leerjin did not dare to storm Xinhui again.

"Let's besiege it! I hope that Huguang's new army can go south to save King Pingnan! Sun Yanling proposed.

"Forehead, I'm afraid it's too late!" Leer Jin said, "The new army of Huguang should also pay attention to the Ming dogs in Jiangnan, Prince An does not dare to leave Jiangnan, otherwise, Prince An should personally bring troops to Guangdong!" ”

"We should capture more people to attack the city! Anyway, we have a lot of people, and the food is enough, so we can build a large siege weapon, and use it together with Yuliang Dao, so that the Puppet Ming Haikou can take care of one thing and lose the other, and they can all win Xinhui in one fell swoop! Hu Tongchun proposed.

"That's all there is to it! Let's attack for another month! Guangzhou is a strong city, and it will definitely not be a problem for King Pingnan to stick to it for a month! We can definitely win the new club in a month! The thieves' firearms are powerful, it is nothing more than relying on the advantages of the city wall, if they leave the city wall, they are not the opponent of our Eight Banners cavalry at all! Le Erjin said indignantly.

Le Erjin hoped to save Shang Kexi and prevent the Ming army from capturing Guangzhou. But he didn't count Shang Zhixin, but at this time, he was actively contacting the Qiongzhou Army.

In Guangzhou City, Shang Kexi's favorite thirteenth daughter is leaving Pingnan Wangfu again today and going to Yaowang Nunnery to chant and worship Buddha. Originally, she wanted to become a nun, but her father stopped her many times, so she didn't succeed. In real history, at the latest next year, Shang Kexi finally couldn't resist her daughter and promised to let her become a nun.

"Little Prince!" A cronie hurriedly ran into Shang Zhixin's study, and Shan Qi knelt on the ground and punched a thousand, "The eyeliner sent by the slave just saw that Thirteen Gege is going to Yaowang Nunnery again!" ”

Shang Zhixin was overjoyed and said: "The opportunity must not be lost, and it will not come again!" This son will immediately take someone to Yaowang Nunnery! As soon as my sister comes out, I'll take her back to our house!" ”

Not long ago, Shang Zhixin received a secret letter from Wu Sangui, and Wu Sangui was also ready to move, preparing to raise troops against the Qing Dynasty. Originally, a Qiongzhou army had already beaten the Qing court all over the place, if Wu Sangui rebelled again, the Qing Dynasty would really be finished! This made Shang Zhixin even more determined to follow the Qiongzhou army.

The Qing Dynasty is coming to an end, Shang Zhixin can't accompany the Qing Dynasty to the funeral, right? He also wanted to live. As for the old immortal, as well as Shang Zhixiao, they love to die, let's die!

Shang Zhixin ordered his own soldiers and rushed to Yaowang Nunnery.

The gate of the second Pingnan palace opened, and the endless team opened out of the palace, in front of which were the elite soldiers of the Han Eight Banners with blue flags in blue armor, followed by the palace horses wearing red armor, these Han Eight Banners soldiers and horses were all freshly dressed and angry, so not majestic.

Ti rode over, followed by a flag-carrying guard of honor and a band, each holding a colorful show, fluttering and covering the sky, blowing and blowing, noisy and full of luxury; Then there is Shang Zhixin and his team of guards, Shang Zhixin, who is dressed in a first-class official uniform, is in the center, and more than 100 fully armed guards are armed with bows, knives, spears, and halberds, serving in front and back.

A huge procession appeared at the gate of Yaowang Nunnery, and the thirteen Geges inside were crying and clamoring to become a monk. The maids around him saw that the situation was not good, and someone had already run back to report to Shang Kexi. (To be continued.) )